A tour through the eventful history of the world's oldest postal museum
Visitors often ask this question: What used to be in the building that now houses the Museum of Communication Berlin? The answer is: It was designed and built to be a museum!
The imposing building on Leipziger Straße is the oldest postal museum in the world. In 2023, the building celebrated its 125th anniversary.
The architectural tour takes you on a journey through the eventful history of the world’s oldest postal museum—today’s Museum for Communication Berlin.
The building is a magnificent Wilhelminian-style structure—explicitly designed and built as a museum. The tour focuses on how the German Empire built itself a postal palace, thereby carving its claim to power in stone.
IN GERMAN
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Dates
November 2026
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